> > I assume that "cheez" isn't the same as "cheese". Any chance of a clue as to the difference?
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> > winter"Is it made of plastic?"mute
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> "Cheez" is weird American stuff which you get in purportedly cheese-flavoured things over there. The main differences, as far as I could see on my last trip to the States, are that "cheese" comes in a range of colours from off-white to yellow, whereas "cheez" is a virulent bright fluorescent orange; "cheese" is made of congealed milk with mould in it, whereas "cheez" is made of toxic waste and artificial flavouring and colouring; "cheese" tastes like cheese and "cheez" tastes like nothing on this Earth. "Cheez" is basically what an alien civilisation would take, from samples, to be probably intended for use as gap filler or a Christmas tree decoration, or numerous possible uses which do not involve having to eat it.
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I agree. The "virulent bright fluorescent orange" is a dead giveaway of Cheez's extraterrestrial origins. How else do you explain that one of the direct spin-offs of the Space Program involved the marketting of an equally-fluorescent "drink product" known as Tang Flavor Crystals?

Shocking, but true... :-)


> In short, "cheese" is something which the sane would consider edible, and "cheez" is not.

Wolf "can't believe I showed to Wise Sam a bottle of Cheez-Whiz in my fridge in an attempt to make them feel 'more at home'.... ARRRGGH, the shame" spirit